Top 300 Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

152. “Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

153. “Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

154. “Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

155. “Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

156. “When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

157. “You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

158. “The unexpected and unpredictable is real.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

159. “You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are not. What you are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

160. “The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

161. “I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

162. “Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

163. “Your burden is of false self-identifications – abandon them all.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

164. “The experience of being empty, uncluttered by memories and expectations; it is like the happiness of open spaces, of being young, of having all the time and energy for doing things, for discovery, for adventure.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

165. “There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

166. “If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

167. “In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking – birth and death – everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

168. “Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

169. “See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being. You will find that in that light there is love and infinite energy.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

170. “It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

171. “Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

172. “The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

173. “Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

174. “You know that you are. Don’t burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

175. “Self-remembrance, awareness of ‘I am’ ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

176. “What refuses to die cannot be reborn.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

177. “When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

178. “Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

179. “Sadhana is a search for what to give up. Empty yourself completely.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

180. “To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

181. “To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor non-living. It is a state of pure awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time. Once the illusion that the body-mind is oneself is abandoned, death loses its terror; it becomes a part of living.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

182. “You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

183. “The man who carries a parcel is anxious not to lose it – he is parcel-conscious. The man who cherishes the feeling ‘I am’ is self-conscious. The jnani holds on to nothing and cannot be said to be conscious. And yet he is not unconscious. He is the very heart of awareness. We call him digambara clothed in space, the Naked One, beyond all appearance. There is no name and shape under which he may be said to exist, yet he is the only one that truly is.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

184. “The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

185. “When you go deep inside nothing is all there is. There is no ‘I am’. The ‘I am’ merges in the Absolute.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

186. “The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

187. “Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

188. “The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

189. “All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one...”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

190. “You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

191. “When the shadow is seen to be only a shadow, you stop following it. You turn around and discover the sun which was there all the time – behind your back!”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

192. “You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

193. “Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

194. “Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished?”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

195. “There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

196. “The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

197. “To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely aloof, as if you were dead. It means you have no vested interests, either in the body or in the mind.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

198. “To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

199. “When there is total surrender, complete relinquishment of all concern with one’s past, present and future, with one’s physical and spiritual security and standing, a new life dawns, full of love and beauty; then the guru is not important, for the disciple has broken the shell of self-defense. Complete self-surrender is liberation by itself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

200. “To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj